When the Government Buys Commercial Items, Don’t Forget You Can Demand Terms Consistent with Customary Commercial Practice
February 9, 2016
The Government’s statutory preference for acquiring commercial items that meet an agency’s needs comes with the requirement that, to the maximum extent possible, contracts for the acquisition of those items include only clauses that are consistent with customary commercial practice. In other words, if the Government buys commercial items, it is supposed to use commercial contract terms if it can.…